God Implored to Confound His Enemies.
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Psalm 83:1
O God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.
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Psalm 83:2
For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves.
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Psalm 83:3
They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
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Psalm 83:4
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
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Psalm 83:5
For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant:
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Psalm 83:6
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;
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Psalm 83:7
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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Psalm 83:8
Assyria also has joined with them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.
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Psalm 83:9
Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent of Kishon,
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Psalm 83:10
Who were destroyed at En-dor, Who became as dung for the ground.
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Psalm 83:11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
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Psalm 83:12
Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves The pastures of God.”
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Psalm 83:13
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.
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Psalm 83:14
Like fire that burns the forest And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,
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Psalm 83:15
So pursue them with Your tempest And terrify them with Your storm.
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Psalm 83:16
Fill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Your name, O LORD.
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Psalm 83:17
Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever, And let them be humiliated and perish,
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Psalm 83:18
That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth.
